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[–]Spicylikegumbo 22 insightful - 2 fun22 insightful - 1 fun23 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

They single out black women because we're an easy punching bag. No one protects us or stand by us. You can get away with saying anything about us. A few years ago Don Imus called black female basketball players "nappy headed hoes." The fact that he felt comfortable enough to say that on air says a lot. The fact that black women had to call out the racism and sexism but black men and white feminists were silent when that happened goes to show black women have to stand up for ourselves most of the time.

History lesson: We didn't get voting rights until several decades after white women. Events like that further contribute to the idea that black women weren't seen as women.

[–]BEB 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I was around for 2nd Wave feminism, and some of the most revered leaders were black women. I remember Shirley Chisholm as an icon. I'm not saying there weren't problems between women and factions of women, but I don't think they had as much to do with race as with personalities, backgrounds and ideologies.

In any case, this whole "white feminism" thing, now used as a slur, is, IMO, just an attempt by men who hate women to divide us.

[–]MarkTwainiac 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Another icon from back then was Flo Kennedy.